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Joseph Tabbi
Born4 May 1960
Academic background
Alma materCornell University
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, University of Bergen

Joseph Tabbi (1960-) is a US academic living in Norway, and is a full professor at the University of Bergen. He is a literary scholar and theorist, notable for his contributions to the fields of American literature and electronic literature.[1]

Academic career[edit]

Tabbi received a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 1989 for a dissertation titled "The Psychology of Machines: Technology and Personal Identity in the Work of Norman Mailer and Thomas Pynchon."[2] Tabbi joined the faculty of the University of Illinois Chicago, and then in 2019 he moved to the University of Bergen to take a position as Professor of English Literature.[3] In 2023 he became one of the Principal Investigators of the Center for Digital Narrative [Senter for digitale fortellinger].

He was the first scholar granted access to the archives of the reclusive novelist William Gaddis,[4] and is the author of Nobody Grew but the Business: On the Life and Work of William Gaddis[5][6] and the editor of The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature[7] (2017), Post-Digital: Critical Debates from electronic book review[8] (2020), and an additional forthcoming volume from Bloomsbury Publishing.[citation needed] His other works include Cognitive Fictions[9] (2002) and Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk[10] (1996).

Tabbi edits the scholarly journal Electronic Book Review[11] (ebr), which he founded with Mark Amerika. Tabbi is also the founder of Consortium on Electronic Literature (CELL), an "open access, non-commercial resource offering centralized access to literary databases, archives, and institutional programs" in the humanities.[12]

Selected works[edit]

Scholia has a profile for Joseph Tabbi (Q59786260).
  • Joseph Tabbi (1996). Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk. Cornell University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-8383-7. Wikidata Q124646197.
  • Joseph Tabbi (2002), Cognitive fictions, Wikidata Q124646252
  • Joseph Tabbi (2015). Nobody grew but the business: on the life and work of William Gaddis. ISBN 978-0-8101-3142-2. OL 27182942M. Wikidata Q124646253.

Edited books[edit]

  • Reading Matters: Narrative in the New Media Ecology (Cornell University Press,1997) (with Michael Wutz) ISBN 9780801484032
  • Paper Empire: William Gaddis and the World System (University of Alabama Press, 2007) (with Rone Shavers et al.) ISBN 9780817354060
  • The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature (2017)
  • Post-Digital: Critical Debates from electronic book review (2019)

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Google Scholar". scholar.google.com.
  2. ^ WorldCat item page
  3. ^ "Joseph Paul Tabbi". University of Bergen. Retrieved 23 February 2024.
  4. ^ "Joseph Tabbi - Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com.
  5. ^ Scott, Joanna (30 July 2015). "The Virtues of Difficult Fiction". The Nation – via www.thenation.com.
  6. ^ Tabbi, Joseph (May 2015). Nobody Grew but the Business (First ed.). Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-8101-3142-2. Retrieved 19 October 2020.
  7. ^ "The Bloomsbury Handbook of Electronic Literature".
  8. ^ "Post-Digital".
  9. ^ Herman, David (15 December 2018). "Cognitive Fictions (review)". Symploke. 12 (1): 294–296. doi:10.1353/sym.2005.0018. S2CID 143953971.
  10. ^ Mascaro, John (1999). "Kant Touch This: Joseph Tabbi's "postmodern Sublime"". Studies in the Novel. 31 (4): 506–515. JSTOR 29533360.
  11. ^ "about ebr – electronic book review". electronicbookreview.com. 18 January 2014.
  12. ^ Tabbi, Joseph. "About". CellProject.net. Consortium on Electronic Literature. Retrieved 24 October 2020.


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